Why do people dislike Mondays?

How did you approach Monday morning at work today, was it with a skip in your stride or did you slowly shuffle into the office, slump into your chair and brace yourself for another long week.

I'm sure most of you will hear someone making a cup of tea bemoaning that it's "Monday" and there is a big long week a head.

Why do people dislike Monday so much?

My daughter who is 2 and a half, she doesn't fully understand the days of the week but every day she runs excitedly into my room "get up daddy, get up daddy".

She is excited the day has begun, she can see the day can be full of possibilities and fun

This is the feeling we should have for Monday morning.

You have a choice how you view the start of the week either view

start of the week focusing on all the possibilities and the things you can achieve this week

start of the week as a long time with lots of tasks you have to do and five days until the weekend.

As a person with a positive outlook, I don't understand why people like to moan about it being Monday, I think we have had a rest from working, you are charged up and ready to rock

AIM HIGH

if your only aim this week is to get through the week, all the way to Friday then that is all you are going to archive but why are you aiming so low! If you aim low you hit low targets, if you aim higher then you could hit those high targets but if you come a little bit short you will still have done a lot better than aiming low.

Set yourself some targets that you want to achieve this week. Once you have your targets, the next step is to create a plan to achieve those targets.

The targets can be linked to your normal work and include other things like read a number of articles, start learning a new skill/technology and read a chapter/number of pages.

Energy

if you trudge into the office, feeling sorry for yourself, feeling there is a big long week a head, you are going to have bad posture and you are going to persuade yourself into feeling tired.

If you view a task or in this case a weeks worth of work as a big task, which is going to be a slog, it's going to drain the energy out of you and make it more difficult, this attitude is contributing to the likelihood of it becoming true.

Bound into the office, Give out some hearty Good Mornings

If you are unsure about how your body language shapes you actions then watch the this Great TED talk from Amy Cuddy - Your body language shapes who you are

Come on it's Monday, you have things to archive, work to do

You have

all week to show what an asset you are

all week to better last weeks output

all week to sell/do more than last week

all week to meet people you have met and increase you network

all week to learn skills to help you in your job

This could be your best work week ever and why not, what's holding you back

Go get em tiger

frog picture used from Mathew T Rader

tiger picture from Christina Saint Marche

Low Carb Low Fat Diets

Whilst reading articles on low carb diet because I am currently trying the Low Carb Diet highlighted in Four hour body by Tim Ferriss.  

I have seen a few videos from the diet doctor, who looks at lots of different diet techniques

he reviews lots of difference diets and other things like learning, is salt good for you etc.

https://www.dietdoctor.com/

he has had lots of people write in saying how effective the low carb diet was for them

https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb-high-fat-changed-life

more success stories here

http://www.dietdoctor.com/category/weight-loss

he has an interesting article on how to lose weight (step 1 - low carb diet)

http://www.dietdoctor.com/how-to-lose-weight

A 2012 study also showed that people on a low carb diet burned 300 more calories a day – while resting! According to one of the Harvard professors behind the study this advantage “would equal the number of calories typically burned in an hour of moderate-intensity physical activity”. Imagine that: an entire bonus hour of exercise every day, without actually doing it.
Bottom line: A low carb diet reduces your hunger and makes it easier to eat less. And it might even increase your fat burning at rest. Study after study show that low carb is the smart way to lose weight and that it improves important health markers.

so it seems if you want to lose weight the low carb method is the most successful

If life went backwards

I read a book slaughter house 5 which puts forward the idea of the time as something aliens can see all of it at once and choose which parts to look at. So don’t be sad at the bad things but just look at the happy things.

One part talks about watching a film going backwards and the 2^nd world war involved planes sucking up bombs from destroyed cities and repairing them.

Baywatch going backwards

In Baywatch Hasslehoff would go about the beach, give people the kiss of life and then take them out to water to try and drown them before they could finally escape his grasp and head on back to dry land.

Books

In the backwards world, books are loathed. People spend hours unwritting the foul things. Any books found in a house, are returned to shops where they reward you by exchanging the books for money

Work

People in the backwards world feel sorry for employers and as a favour they work for them 37.5 hours a week and then pay them for the privledge.

Football

One of the most boring pastimes, every single match ends in a nil – nil draw. The league is staggered with some teams starting with more points to get rid of than others but slowly over the season it all balances out and each season ends with all the teams level on zero points.

Eating is terrible.

We go into the toilet, throw some water down the sink, put some soap into a small dispenser using the sucking motion on the top. We then start to take used pieces of toilet paper out of the toilet and then wipe the shit onto are arse, after a while, we take suck a turd clean out of the toilet into are arse!!! After a while we then vomit up whole meals and small pieces of food which we carefully piece together and often wrap up and put on shelves for other people to buy.

Life backwards

Often some people wake up in old folks homes surrounded by these weird old people, who can bearly look after themselves and piss and shit themselves and generally talk crap and believe TV people are real. Some of them keep talking about premonitions of a war that is going to happen. It’s sounds great, this bloke called Hitler, revives millions of people and even makes some Jewish people out of bars of soap. Hitler isn’t happy with this and also invents a shower that you put dead people in, sucks the gas out of the air and they all come back to life. In the backwards world Hitler is one of the most celebrated people, where as Oscar schindler is reviled for making a huge list of people who he sends back to prison. The story of Anne frank is very unusual, she gets revived in a prisoner of war camp and then hides away in a small loft hidden from everyone and unwrites her famous diary until she is a no one again.

Doctors are considered evil. People who have recovered from an illness visit them, only to find the doctor infects them with it. The only way around this is to go home, live your life until the symptoms disappear.

Old people get visited by family members until one day they take them out of the old folks home, you feel a lot better and have more energy. You slowly start to build up your energy and sanity levels until finally you get up enough strength to go to work. Often you will have a good job on excellent pay despite having no experience. No experience is considered the most valuable thing in backwards world. Slowly as you build up more experience you become less valuable and then on a yearly basis your employee meets you for your pay review meeting and they slowly reduce you wages through your life until in the end they sack you. You get disenchanted and see no other choice than going to University, initially you work really hard but then the more you stay at university the less and less work you do, until you get to your final year where you spend most of the time mucking about, not working, drinking beer and shagging women. Finally university get sick of you and chuck you out. Not to be put off you give education another chance and go to school. Same old story, work hard to begin with and then slowly work less and less until they get sick of you and chuck you out. It’s your last chance with education now and you give primary school ago, same story and finally they chuck you out. You give up on school altogether and you just sit around and play. Because of your failure in education people think you are stupid and talk to you in baby language and patronize you by congratulating you on walking and saying simple words.